Some of you have noticed, just like I did, that EasyZoom is no longer hosting any images. The service is no longer being offered, for free or paid, as they have now fully pivoted to be medical imaging company. This was sad, EasyZoom was a really useful service that I used for over a decade hosting several large maps.

There are alternatives, before I found EasyZoom I dabbled with https://openseadragon.github.io/#plugins OpenSeadragon is very powerful, open source and comes with lots of cool plugins making it even more powerful. The downside is that it requires tinkering with JavaScript, so I took the lazy approach and used EasyZoom. Now it is back to use OpenSeadragon, QGIS Geoserver, Leaflet maps and other tools to create online maps. It will require way more investment in time and effort but the possibilities are big so in the end its probably worth it.

Still too soon for me to have figured on how to best solve this. I'm in the early stages of setting up a QGIS GeoServer, but that is a different beast providing way more features in the future. Short term solutions are harder, most tools requires programming and manual hosting which is a project in itself. I'm going to see if I can find other paid solutions to fill the gap, there must be a bit of demand for hosting large images on the web.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience, it was a very useful site.